Leave Your Sins Behind This New Year.

What is the greatest gift you can give yourself this new year or better yet what is the greatest gift you can receive? I believe it’s the gift of repentance. What causes regret in your life? Is it broken relationships, a failed marriage, anger, unforgiveness? God provides a remedy for all of these things which are caused by sin, and that is repentance. We all want to feel the joy in life, we all want to feel happiness, but the more we sin and live a sinful lifestyle, we feel we have to cover up our sins in order to feel a sense of peace. But true peace comes from not living any way we want to live, but by living a holy life, in fellowship with the Father.

I encourage you to start this new year by being honest with yourself, if you have relationships that are broken, if you have sinned gravely, repent, if you don’t you will take all these sins with you not just into the new year with you, but you will take them with you when you die. This is what the bible refers to when it talks about dying in your sins. The first step to freedom is repentance and accepting the free gift of salvation. You need to trust in Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins, and then you have to walk with God for the rest of your life. Sin promises you freedom but it ends up enslaving you, and ultimately taking you to hell.

If it’s rest you are looking for you need to repent and put your faith in God. God alone can ease your conscience and give you the clean slate you desire. As much as we believe that the rolling of the calendar year will wipe our slate clean we are deceiving ourselves. Yes, we are given a new year to live, and we should celebrate life, but only God can forgive our sins and ease our conscience. It’s good to live without regret, and the Bible says that Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (2 Corinthians 7:10) So what the bible says that if we sorrow over our sins in the right way, it will bring repentance which will lead to salvation, which leaves no regret, but if we sorrow the wrong way, it only produces death.

We all want to live without regret and the bible says this is possible only if we have sorrow over our sins in a godly way. My prayer for you this new year is that you would repent and trust God. It’s what your heart is truly longing for, and it’s what most people are trying to achieve this time of year or at the end of the year, but it can only be achieved with God. God bless you

and have a blessed and happy new year. This is Mike.

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